Sentences with phrase «as agents of change lead»

Sydney shares how her experiences in the classroom and a desire to see teachers as agents of change lead her to work with other teachers to start E4E (Tulane...

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Whether it's leading a national conversation about gun control or fighting for girls» education and gender equality around the world, an increasing number of young women are stepping forward as change agents.

The question of whether we experience ourselves as passive leads therefore into its opposite: Do we experience ourselves as agents, i.e., as actively affecting and changing other things which relative to our action are passive?

From June 5 — 7, 2018, more than 200 leading personalities from the cocoa and chocolate industry, governments and civil society will gather in Davos / Switzerland to discuss how technology is spurring innovation in our sector, explore how we can ensure a sustainable chocolate future and highlight the role of business as a change agent.

We failed to realize that as agents of change, we should have moved our efforts forward in small steps with the hope that each minor success would lead to further expansion and acceptance of new ideas.

A meta - analysis conducted by Marzano, Waters, and McNulty (2005) found that several promotion - focused behaviors among school leadership are linked to higher levels of student achievement, including (1) serving as a change agent (challenging the status quo and leading efforts that have uncertain outcomes); (2) demonstrating flexibility (being comfortable with major changes and dissent); and (3) being an optimizer (encouraging innovation by portraying a positive attitude about teachers» ability to achieve what may seem to be beyond their grasp).

He identifies these contemporary issues not just as problems, but as symptoms of change that represent tasks to be resolved by the school's leading agent of change — the principal.

«I saw my role to act as a change agent to challenge the status quo, in the reasoning that more of the same would not lead to a different outcome.

As you'll recall, our lead last week — London Author Fair's Debut: Change Agents — was triggered by the newly inaugurated London Author Fair produced by Gareth Howard and Hayley Radford of Authoright at Covent Garden's Hospital Club.

As I have said before, I knew some top agents were reading these chapters and I hoped that a few of them would take the lead in some changes that need to happen.

It falls to you and your allies to restore order as you lead the Inquisition and hunt down the agents of chaos.Explore, lead, and battle: Tough choices define your experience, and even one decision can change the course of what's to come.Wield the power of the Inquisition over the course of an epic character - driven story, and lead a perilous journey of discovery through the Dragon Age.

Market - leading third - party solar finance - installation companies, such as SolarCity, Sunrun and Vivint, have been pivotal agents of change that can be credited with raising residential solar PV to unprecedented heights in the U.S..

This ABC program subsequently led to the identification of short - lived climate pollutants as potent mitigation agents of climate change, and in recognition, UNEP formed the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to deal with these pollutants.»

I am not trying to diminish humans as the primary agents of activities that lead to climate change... I am just pointing out that, no matter what we do, climate change will happen.

We can serve as agents of change and I look forward to having Brooks Kushman lead by example.»

Embracing your role as a change agent, however, can lead to great personal development while also putting you at the forefront of your firm's future.

Today, we deal with disruptive technologies, commoditization, unbundling of legal services, globalization of firms, BigLaw and NewLaw, and co-opetition... And he goes on to write ``... as chief change agent for one of the world's largest law firms, I am constantly looking for insights to help us make sense of change, and to make those changes necessary for us to remain one of the world's leading law firms.»

As chief change agent for one of the world's largest law firms, I am constantly looking for insights and advice to help us make sense of change, and to make those changes necessary for us to remain one of the world's leading law firms.

He says that in his opinion, the consent agreement led to «a rift between CREA and the real estate boards; undue hardships on real estate sales associates, a change in commission structures that reduced or eliminated what I perceive as essential services to clients; the appearance of «mere listing» options where the buyer's agents now have to take an extra step and negotiate their own commissions with a seller prior to presenting the offer; and last but not least, the «opening» of the MLS information, which Realtors pay for, making it fully available to the public.»

The top response was to «increase the percentage of new home construction,» followed by «better education of clients on rent versus buy and the view of current inventory,» «motivating agents to be more proactive with lead generation,» «reevaluation of local zoning and permit laws,» «changes to the tax structure,» «reevaluation of national housing regulations,» and «creative solutions such as manufacture housing.»